Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to EnlightenmentIn the 13th century, Master Dogen wrote a practical manual of instructions for the Zen cook. In drawing paralells between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training, however, he reveals more than simply the rules and manners of the Zen kitchen; he teaches us how to cook or refine our lives." |
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by Zen Master Dōgen | 3 |
On Life Force and Life Activity 82 | 82 |
Throwing Your Life into the Abode of | 92 |
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able activities Antai-ji awakened Baizhang become Big Mind bodhicitta bodhisattva Buddha buddhadharma Buddhism carry Chanyuan Qinggui chapter characters chiji China cooking Daigui daishin Daiyuan Fu day-to-day dharma disciples Dōgen Zenji Dongshan Dongshan Shouchu Eihei-ji enlightenment everything we encounter expression feel function gāthā goal grain Guishan Lingyou half-grains idea impermanence Japan Japanese Jiashan Joyful Mind Kennin-ji kishin Kōan Kōshō Linji Lu lives look Magnanimous Mañjuśrī means mind or attitude monastery monks Mount Ayuwang naturally never one's ordinary ourselves passage person phenomena practicing zazen prepare meals priests problem Qingyuan reading reality refers refined replied samādhi samgha Sanskrit Sawaki Rōshi sense sesshin Shakyamuni Shakyamuni Buddha Shanhui shikan-taza Shōbō-genzō sitting sōdō Sōtō soup spirit story sutras talking teacher teaching temple Tenzo Kyōkun things thought Three Treasures throw tion tōji translation true truth trying Uchiyama Rōshi understand words Xuedou zazen